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By 1976, the Sweet's chart career was already receding behind them, while they battled to be taken seriously as an album's-orientated band. It was a conceit, of course, that history merely laughs at, but the fact of the matter is, they put on an excellent show. Opening with the traditional curtain raiser ‘Ballroom Blitz’, the band slam through three albums worth of hard-hitting rock, and only occasionally do they graze the hits. ‘Blockbuster’ is served up within a medley headlined by ‘Burning’ and ‘Someone Else Will’ and while ‘The Six Teens’, ‘Action’ and ‘Fox on the Run’ all make it into the last third of the show, they're scarcely ‘Little Willy’, are they? Besides, the real meat lies in the songs that proved the Sweet were something more than a pop machine – ‘Restless’, ‘Cockroach’, ‘AC DC’, ‘Turn It Down’ — this is the Sweet at their brain-charring peak, and in the world of glam-era live albums, there's no better representation of a group going hell for leather to escape that terminology. This fantastic live album was recorded at a concert at Fyens Forum, Odense in Denmark on the 7th of May 1976. It was originally released on cd in 1998 then re-released as ‘Live In Concert’ in 2009. This third release, released in 2012, comes with a remastered sound and with a new cover artwork. Track listing: 1. The Ballroom Blitz 2. Yesterdays Rain 3. Someone Else Will/Blockbuster 4. Restless 5. Cockroach 6. Burn On The Flame 7. AC/DC 8. Keep It In 9. Man With The Golden Arm 10. The Lies In Your Eyes 11. The Six Teens 12. Turn It Down 13. Action 14. Set Me Free 15. Fox On The Run